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Tuesday, 18 January 2011

Weems School

Posted on 13:36 by Unknown
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Posted in *Ohio, 2010, Nepotism, Questionable financial practices, Questionable hiring or termination practices | No comments

Mokapu STEM School (attempt)

Posted on 13:32 by Unknown
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Posted in **Managed by Gulen movement, *Hawaii, 2011, Questionable hiring or termination practices | No comments

California charter schools (food service issues)

Posted on 13:27 by Unknown
CHARTER CHOICES: GOOD FOOD, FREE FOOD, NO FOOD - SOME CAMPUSES SAY THEY LACK THE MEANS TO PROVIDE NUTRITIOUS MEALS — OR ANY MEALS; January 1, 2011; Los Angeles Times (CA) At Larchmont Charter School in Los Angeles, a former restaurant chef whips up pasta with fresh vegetable sauce for lunch one day; on another he offers a salad bar with figs grown on campus.But 500 miles north, in tiny Red Bluff, lunchtime at Sacramento River Discovery Charter School is decidedly different: Students must either bring their own lunches or place orders with...
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Patriot Preparatory Academy

Posted on 13:24 by Unknown
CHARTER'S TIES TO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL DRAW STATE SCRUTINY; November 8, 2010; Columbus Dispatch (OH)  Out went the private Liberty Christian Academy. In came the public Patriot Preparatory Academy, a charter school in the same location with many of the same students and teachers. The state says the new school has changed enough to receive tax money. A new charter school has the same founder, is staffed by many of the same teachers and attended by many of the same students as a private Christian school that previously used its East Side...
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Posted in *Ohio, 2010, Questionable church/state barrier | No comments

International Preparatory School

Posted on 13:22 by Unknown
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Posted in *Ohio, 2005, 2010, Lawsuit, Questionable enrollment practices | No comments

Winfree Academy

Posted on 13:18 by Unknown
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Posted in *Texas, 2010, Nepotism, Questionable hiring or termination practices | No comments

Lynacre Academy

Posted on 13:16 by Unknown
FOUNDER, BOARD BLAME EACH OTHER FOR LYNACRE ACADEMY'S DEMISE; February 17, 2008; Dallas Morning News (TX) Everyone knew something was amiss at Lynacre Academy – its school board members, its accountant and Texas Education Agency regulators charged with monitoring charter schools. But nobody fixed it, and the school that was supposed to help poor, struggling students in South Dallas ran out of money and closed on Feb. 1. What happened, and why did $750,000 in state funding disappear? "The money went somewhere; where it went, I don't know," said...
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Posted in *Texas, 2008, Attendance tracking problems, Lawsuit, Misspent funds: $750K, Misuse of funds, Nepotism | No comments

Imagine Charter School at Firestone

Posted on 13:11 by Unknown
SVVSD RENEWS IMAGINE’S CHARTER: SCHOOL BOARD STILL EXAMINING CHARTER SCHOOL POLICIES; January 13, 2011; Longmont Times-Call (CO)  The St. Vrain Valley School District Board of Education on Wednesday renewed one charter school’s charter, then continued to grapple with how to handle applications for new charter schools. Although the vote to renew Imagine Charter School at Firestone’s charter was unanimous, school board members raised concerns about its budget. Only 32 percent of Imagine at Firestone’s revenue is spent on instruction, board...
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Posted in **Managed by Imagine Schools, *Colorado, 2011, Profiteering, Questionable financial practices | No comments

Oceanside Charter School

Posted on 13:09 by Unknown
APPEALS COURT RULES OCEANSIDE CHARTER SCHOOL MUST REPAY $350,000 FEDERAL GRANT; January 14, 2011; The Press of Atlantic City (NJ) An appellate panel upheld an order for an Atlantic City charter school to repay a $350,000 federal grant to renovate a facility that was never built.Oceanside Charter School was awarded four grants totaling nearly $1.9 million in 2002 to help it lease and renovate a building belonging to the Second Baptist Church across from the school on Bacharach Boulevard. But in 2004, the state Department of Education discovered...
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Posted in *New Jersey, 2011, Questionable real estate practices | No comments

Pembroke Pines Charter High School

Posted on 13:07 by Unknown
STUDENT WINS $1 IN FREE SPEECH FACEBOOK SETTLEMENT; December 28, 2010; NBCMIAMI.com A buck doesn't go a long way these days, but it's probably the best dollar Katie Evans has ever earned.The Pembroke Pines Charter High School grad is celebrating the end of a two-year battle over her first amendment rights that started when she declared her AP English teacher, Sarah Phelps, "the worst she ever had" on her Facebook page. The school cried cyberbullying and suspended Evans. But the University of Florida student fought back, with the help of the ACLU,...
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Posted in *Florida, 2010, Lawsuit, Questionable discipline practices | No comments
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